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Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with long hair, wearing a light-colored top, and holding a phone to their ear.

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Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with long hair, wearing a light-colored top, and holding a phone to their ear.

Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with long hair, wearing a light-colored top, and holding a phone to their ear. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIco…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • central subject
  • indistinct background

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixelated image shows a person with long dark hair, light-colored top, and hand holding a phone to left ear. Face is partially visible with closed eyes and slight smile. Background is indistinct dark and light areas. Image has low resolution with visible pixelation. No text or symbols present. Composition is close-up portrait with central subject. Style is monochrome with high contrast between light and dark pixels.

Description

  • Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with long hair, wearing a light-colored top, and holding a phone to their ear.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 20081104101550882244258

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding phone
  • black-and-white pixelated portrait
  • long hair phone to ear
  • closed eyes slight smile
  • grayscale monochrome image
  • low resolution pixelated
  • indistinct background portrait
  • phone to ear close-up

Preprocessing Notes

  • low resolution
  • pixelated

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Wordwall

  • black-and-white
  • pixelated
  • long hair
  • phone to ear
  • closed eyes
  • slight smile
  • light-colored top
  • indistinct background
  • low resolution
  • monochrome
  • high contrast
  • close-up portrait
  • central subject
  • no text
  • no symbols
  • grayscale
  • hand holding phone
  • partially visible face
  • dark hair
  • light top

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081104101550882244258
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.8 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/72/72e4602b7880f5cf3dab112d1328d51a8d5795d9e2a375d1fe5ef7829771ef9c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 UTC
Archive ID
72e4602b7880f5cf
SHA-256
72e4602b7880f5cf3dab112d1328d51a8d5795d9e2a375d1fe5ef7829771ef9c
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
July 31, 2026 at 09:51 UTC
Run
1249
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001303

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:57 UTC
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1039
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with long hair, wearing a light-colored top, and holding a phone to their ear.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 07:00 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,490 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,093, response 833

Review tags

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  • holding phone to ear (action, 0.80)
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Actions

  • holding phone
  • holding phone to ear

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • close-up
  • central subject
  • indistinct background

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixelated image shows a person with long dark hair, light-colored top, and hand holding a phone to left ear. Face is partially visible with closed eyes and slight smile. Background is indistinct dark and light areas. Image has low resolution with visible pixelation. No text or symbols present. Composition is close-up portrait with central subject. Style is monochrome with high contrast between light and dark pixels.

Description

  • Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with long hair, wearing a light-colored top, and holding a phone to their ear.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 20081104101550882244258

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • calm
  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding phone
  • black-and-white pixelated portrait
  • long hair phone to ear
  • closed eyes slight smile
  • grayscale monochrome image
  • low resolution pixelated
  • indistinct background portrait
  • phone to ear close-up

Objects

  • phone

Preprocessing Notes

  • low resolution
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Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • monochrome
  • grayscale

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

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  • closed eyes
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  • light-colored top
  • indistinct background
  • low resolution
  • monochrome
  • high contrast
  • close-up portrait
  • central subject
  • no text
  • no symbols
  • grayscale
  • hand holding phone
  • partially visible face
  • dark hair
  • light top
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Full source records (1)

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016) (internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016)

Kind
local-directory
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Type
Internet Archive tar preservation of the FranksIcons shared buddy-icon store
Title
20081104101550882244258
Archive entry
20081104101550882244258.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 UTC
Rights
mixed anonymous, fan, commercial, and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large cross-sectional user-shared AIM buddy-icon collection spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, relationships, moods, holidays, and internet culture

Original: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081104101550882244258.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081104101550882244258.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016